I'm relatively new to the west coast but it sounds like Vegas has been booming over the past decade or so.

I'm employed full time as a sales engineer so real estate investing would be more a side project for me to earn additional income.As some of you may know, the Boston real estate market has been booming recently so the Boston metro area is probably outside my wheelhouse.

Austin is super ridiculously sided with a demand that's planting roots here and living, low inventory and post-recession boom so you're going to get low cash flow and the possibility of high appreciation at the moment.

Boom.

It's easier to sleep when a hail storm is rolling through the area, as I am only responsible for "studs in".The newer age of the units has provided very few maintenence requests and the neighborhoods attract very good neighbors and have a great school district.All that being said, my CoC returns leave some to be desired (7.xx%), but I have had great returns on appreciation with the areas boom.

Booms are followed by busts!

If it wasn't for the big boom in prices, I probably would have never had the investor mindset to begin with.

Especially in hotter markets like Sacramento.Back during the crash, banks were dying to get this inventory off their books and recoup what they could, and so you could buy them for pennies on the dollar.But eventually banks got hip to the idea that the public started to think REO's were automatically a good deal, and combined with a booming housing market they're selling at full market value now.

.) = low flood insurance2 minutes away from the booming Long BeachThoughts?

Welcome to Bigger Pockets and especially welcome to the booming metropolis of Lancaster, Ohio!